{"id":18154,"date":"2022-12-01T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/01\/new-rule-would-stop-mps-taking-time-off-to-go-in-jungle\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:18:13","slug":"new-rule-would-stop-mps-taking-time-off-to-go-in-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=18154","title":{"rendered":"New rule would stop MPs taking time off to go in jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Liberal Democrats are trying to bring in a rule banning sitting MPs going on reality TV programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">They have tabled an Early Day Motion &#8211; dubbed the Bushtucker Bill &#8211; after Matt Hancock went to Australia for several weeks to take part in I&#8217;m A Celebrity and earning a fee for taking part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Helen Morgan told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m001fr0n\/politics-live-pressure-on-the-nhs\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC Two&#8217;s Politics Live<\/a> that MPs were not employees and some existing employment laws did not apply to them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In the TV debate, Conservative Party deputy chair, Nickie Aiken MP said he should not get the Tory whip back adding that Nadine Dorries lost it for six months after he previous appearance on a previous series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">This clip can only be viewed in the UK<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-63634455\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">I&#8217;m a Celebrity: Jill Scott wins as Matt Hancock MP finishes third<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-63822550?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Liberal Democrats are trying to bring in a rule banning sitting MPs going on reality TV programmes. They have tabled an Early Day Motion &#8211; dubbed the Bushtucker Bill &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}